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Sounds like he couldn't get any feedback in Greece. This was interesting because having moved to silicon valley a few years ago, I never thought of user feedback as one of the core values of the area. The situation elsewhere in the US is probably better than Greece, but maybe not as good as San Francisco.

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As somebody in San Francisco, how has being there helped you get user feedback? Wouldn't the audience for most startups be either global, or at least national?

Or is it something more to do with the culture of the San Francisco bay area?

From my experience, you get much better generalized startup feedback, but it's frankly harder to get true user feedback unless you're building something for SF types. I tend to filter a lot of my more general consumer product ideas through friends who DON'T live in SF because I want them to not be comparing it to every other startup they've heard about recently.

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